🎉🥳 nice work, dude!
My 2 questions for you are
1) how do you keep a yellow rope that clean?
2) does it have to do with that tarp? what brand is that tarp? I like how large it is. My little one that folds into my rope bag is slippery for the rope and, as I said, little. The rope tends to spend a lot of time not on the ground cover.
Just had to double check that both of my pairs of shoes are still with my climbing gear. Yours look awfully familiar. 😁
Well, now I don’t have to read the link in the post. This is all I wanted to know. Thanks, y’all
I appreciate the thoughts and ideas!
Yeah, they can call me what they want. I know they’re just jealous. 😁
That had to be a terrible experience to witness, I’m sure sorry you had to see it, and even more sorry for the kid. I can see how the experience could form this opinion and that kids being at the crag could trigger some anxiety for you. If I saw a child hit in the face by a line drive, I’d probably be hesitant to take kids to an MLB game.
With that said, there are endless ways for children to be severely injured or killed away from the crag and at some point in life all parents draw a line for the risk they are willing to support. Simultaneously, they are choosing to what degree they will allow the child to experience the world, conquer fears and build confidence.
In my opinion, children belong at the crag. They need nature. They need to explore. They need to challenge themselves. They need to move and stretch and grow. They need to fall, scrape their knees and get back up.
And we adults need to witness this. We need to see their wonder, the way they effortlessly meld with and lose themselves in the natural world. We need to see their resilience. We need their play to remind of us that life is fun and we need their curiosity to remind us how much we can still learn.
Parents and children need to go through trials together to learn to trust and communicate with one another.
Climbing is one way to do these things.
I hope this helps you see, at least a little bit, where adventure parents are coming from. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.
Wishing you peace and safety in your journey ❤️
Ah yes I’ve seen that too. All in due time…or not 🤷♂️ up to the kid 😁
1) The boy asked to climb 2) I did keep him safe, thus proving it was physically possible to keep him safe 3) You’ve never seen him walk
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And the interesting thing is that this one does. When I tighten the back knob, it hugs his head and stays on when he is looking up, down, bending etc.
Kids are clumsy, have t-Rex arms and don’t make minor corrections to their own gear. So, they are more likely to be out of wack. An attentive adult is needed.
What is funny is that in the very next video, it is fixed (I fixed it) and it stayed that way through the rest of the climb (though it had to be fixed while was at the base a couple more times). I knew the helmet police would be coming for me but I liked this pic better so I still went with it. 😁
Exactly, butterfly on a bight. It seemed okay at an easy grade, but if I happened to slip/fall down and not out, I imagine it could put some potentially-injurious forces in the little one (I’m picturing a downward bull that compresses them into the foot holds). This may be worse if the rope is over their shoulder like in my picture.
I think I’d like to try two ropes and the belayer working a double rope through an ATC.
If you find other good resources or ideas, let me know.
It is full body, and might be Petzl, I’ll have to double check.
He is on a bight and I am on a fig 8 on the same rope. so I just held/lifted the back of his harness so he wasn’t dangling weirdly and we were lowered on my weight.
Exactly.
It was fine, but would increase risk with the variables you mentioned.
Like someone else said, it’s fine until it’s not. I’ll be making some adjustments in the future.
Seems so. Though it is interesting how personality dependent this can be. His older siblings have had chances to climb at similar ages and two have been much more nervous. In fact one of them is still more nervous and only climbed about half as high as this guy.
Each at their own pace I guess 🤙
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I agree 100%. My exact thoughts when I reviewed the picture. I think next time we will set up with a two rope system.
Yeah, these kids heads are shaped funny. No matter how tight I put the thing, without choking him, it slides back a bit occasionally. I’d slip it back into place and it would stay a while.
Perhaps there is an adjustment I can make to fix this, but I haven’t found it yet despite changing various bits on the helmet.
As a person born in Hawaii, as long as it is fresh, you can never have too much poke.
Delish!
Too much poke??
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